Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was one of the individuals most responsible in the ninteenth century for the quantification of in the physical and social sciences. He was born in Ghent on February 22, 1796, and was educated at the Lycee of Ghent. At...

Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet was one of the individuals most responsible in the 19th century for the quantification of argumentsin the physical and social sciences. He was born in Ghent on February 22, 1796, and was educated at the Lycee of Ghent....

The Belgian statistician and astronomer Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet (1796-1874) is considered the founder of modern statistics and demography. Adolphe Quételet was born in Ghent on Feb. 22, 1796. When he finished secondary school at...

Lambert Adolphe Quetelet was born in 1796 in Ghent, Belgium. He was the son of a municipal officer who had once left Ghent to become a secretary to a Scottish nobleman. At an early age Quetelet showed a great talent for mathematics. By the age of...